List of tables


1.1	Impact of Budget policy changes on the PSBR
1.2	The Public Sector Borrowing Requirement
1.3	The new public spending plans
1.4	The Budget tax and national insurance measures
1.5	The public finances in 1996-97 and 1997-98
2.1	The public sector's finances
3.1	Summary of forecast
3.2	The world economy
3.3	Gross domestic fixed capital formation
3.4	Trade in non-oil goods
3.5	The current account
3.6	Retail and producer output price inflation
3.7	Recent Treasury forecasts
3.8	Budget and Independent Panel forecasts
3.9	Summary of short-term economic prospects
3.10	Gross domestic product and its components
3.11	Output growth and inflation
3.12	Differences from 1995 Budget projections
3A.1	Summary of short-term forecasts
3A.2	Forecasts of GDP and its components
3A.3	Summary of medium-term projections
4.1	Public sector borrowing requirement
4.2	The public sector's finances
4.3	Public sector debt
4.4	General government receipts
4.5	General government receipts as a percent of GDP
4.6	General government expenditure
4.7	Changes in the projections since 1995 Budget
4.8	Changes in the projection of receipts
4.9	Changes in the public spending projections
4.10	Financing requirements forecast for 1996-97
4.11	Variant GDP growth projections
4.12	Variant PSBR projections
4A.1	General government receipts
4A.2	Public sector borrowing requirement by sector
4A.3	Central government transactions on a cash receipts and outlays basis
4A.4	Local authority transactions
4A.5	Public corporations' transactions
4A.6	Public sector transactions by sub-sector and economic category
4A.7	Comparison with previous forecasts
4A.8	Historical series for the PSBR and its components
4A.9	Historical series for government receipts
5.1	The Control Total
5.2	Total effect on the Budget of changes in public expenditure
5.3	The Control Total, GGE(X) and GGE
5.4	Public sector capital expenditure
5.5	Private Finance Initiative: estimated capital spending
5.6	Private Finance Initiative: estimated forward commitments from signed contracts
5.7	Control Total by department
5.8	Debt interest
5A.1	Public expenditure, 1963-64 to 1999-1000
5A.2	Control Total in Real Terms: plans and outturn
5A.3	GGE(X): plans and outturn
5A.4	Control Total by department
5A.5	Control Total by department in real terms
5A.6	Financing requirements of the nationalised industries, by department and industry
5A.7	Local authority expenditure
6.1	Revenue effects of Budget measures
6B.1	Revenue effects of measures announced since the 1995 Budget
6B.2	Measures announced in 1995 Budget or earlier which take effect after the 1996 Budget

[Prepared November 1996]